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Outdoor enthusiast — hiking, cycling, sailing. Makes music, enjoys art. Career oceanographer, academic. Massachusetts #explore #nature #outside #hiking #mountains #cycling #running #trailrunning #beach #ocean #sailing #canoeing #oceanographer #sonar #echolocation

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Enjoyed a fun spring hike yesterday in southern . Went up an isolated rock mountain (a “monadnock” and so-named). No ice or snow, all the way to the summit. Great views from the top! Lots of class II scrambling up steep rock slabs — impressive that this is the popular “family” trail— those 6 year old children from New Hampshire are tough! 😀

Photo of view looking up a steep rock slab toward summit. Summit, behind green trees, is seen near top of photo.
Photo of steep rock slab, taken from side view, illustrating the steepness of some of the slabs. Forested valley and solid blue sky in background. A large angular rock is attached to the slab.
Photo looking down one of the steep slabs with green trees at the end of the slabs. Forested valley is shown in the background.

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@jessamyn Yes, very deceiving from the bottom. More technically challenging than most of the trails I hike in the White Mountains.

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Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

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@Gargron Thank you for your great vision and hard work making Mastodon what it is today! 👍

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I had a great day in the mountains yesterday! Leaving the trailhead at dawn, I was able to spend the entire day enjoying the snowy wilderness all the way to the summit and back. Great snow/trail conditions above a certain elevation allowing between there and the summit. A clear sunny day with great views from the top. White , .

Photo of my red snowshoes stuck in a bank of snow at the summit of Mt Liberty. Snow in foreground, snow-capped Mt Washington in the distant background against a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Green trees in the intermediate background.
Photo of snowy trail in snow-covered forest just after sunrise. Photo taken early in my hike. The trail has many footprints and leads from the camera to the top of a hill. The sun is blocked by one of the trees. Long dark shadows from the trees are projected onto the white snow. Liberty Springs Trail.
Photo of small stream winding through snow-covered forest. Stream flows away from camera. The snow makes an irregular pattern along the banks of the stream. Brown and tan rocks line the bed of the stream. Green trees in background. Liberty Springs Trail

Photo of me standing at the summit of Mt Liberty. I had just arrived at the summit and am wearing my backpack, holding trekking poles, and have red snowshoes on my feet. I am standing in a patch of snow adjacent to rocky top of the summit. The snow-capped Mt Washington is in the distant background against a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Brown and tan boulders partly covered with snow in the foreground.
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    • TimKStanton OP ,
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    2/ This snowshoeing trip marked a milestone for me—it was the first time that I have summited a mountain on snowshoes. It was only several years ago that I first hit the wintry mountain trails by snowshoe. Going solo and without formal instruction, I proceeded extremely cautiously, doing many repetitions on easier, moderate-slope trails and only going relatively short distances, turning around well before a summit. (CONT)

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    3/ As I gained experienced, I tried short steeper sections of trails. Between hikes, I went through tutorials on winter hiking in the mountains with the various types of traction.

    In spite of how technically easy these early trips were, I was not close to being in "snowshoeing shape". I was tired at my turnaround point and ready to return home. Wanting to get into better shape, I ramped up my workouts, focusing more on strengthening my legs and increasing my aerobic conditioning. (CONT)

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    4/ Trial run: Last November, I took a trial hike on a snowy trail that I had identified as being within my technical abilities for snowshoeing. With only a small amount of snow, I could safely get to the summit with bareboots or microspikes. It was this trail that I snowshoed last week in full winter conditions. Results: I not only made it to the summit, but I was never completely gassed at any point of the trip (just winded on the steep sections, requiring short breaks). (CONT)

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    5/ Upon returning home from snowshoeing to the summit, I wasn't very sore, just a bit stiff. After a two-day break, I am now back to my workouts again, building on what I learned to get to this point. I am thrilled with my new abilities (both technically on snowshoes and my physical condition). I’m looking forward to hitting the mountains again! (END)

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    @jessamyn Thanks! One of those things I said I would "never" do. Moral to story, never say "never"!

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